1st Otto Schott Research Award

Prof. Werner Vogel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Prof. Werner Vogel

Glass research was his scientific life’s work. Most notably, he was able to advance the understanding of the characteristics of glass as a material and thus its areas of application quite considerably by using the electron microscope to investigate phase separation phenomena in glass.

Prof. Hideo Hosono, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Prof. Hideo Hosono

Light-sensitive glasses, defects in glass structures, as well as porous glass-ceramics represent the main focus of his research. With his research work, he contributed toward a better understanding of the defect structures in glasses and the resulting developments in the area of new glasses and glass-ceramics.